Study Guide

My Side of the Mountain
Study Guide

Describe the tree home.



Who is "The Baron"?



What is the Falcon's name?

Where is Sam (the boy) from? Where is he now? Why is it no place for a Gribley?





When did he leave home? What did he take? How did he get there?




What did Sam first whittle?



What happened his first night in the forest?



Where did he finally cook his fish?



Where does he find out about the Gribley farm?



Why did Sam decide to eat the flower?


What are a few of the things Sam finds as he explores?



How does Sam decide to build a home?



What does he do about his problem about not having a bucket?



What does Sam help the Little Old Lady do?



Why does he want a Peregrine Falcon?



How does he finally get one?



Why did Sam resolve to keep his yard clean from now on?



What did Sam catch in his trap? In what unusual way did it react?



How did Sam get his door?



How did Sam finally catch a deer?



Why didn't Sam let Frightful eat the first sparrow she caught?



Who is Jesse C. James?




What does Sam do when he finds a real live man in his camp?



Who is Bando really?



How did Sam finish his fireplace?



Describe Sam's Halloween. What did he learn?




How did Sam get his 3rd deer?




How does Sam learn to use hunters?



How does the boy Sam's age react to seing him in the store?



What did Sam forget to do before winter?



What does Bando tell Sam?


Who else showed up on Christmas?



How did Sam know when a snowstorm was coming?


What vitamin did Sam find out he lacked? How did he find out?



Who is Matt Spell?



What did Frightful say at Sam's "forum"?



Who is Aaron?




What did a guesthouse mean?



Who is Tom Sidler?



Who does Dad bring? Why?